Genetics Quiz Questions & Answers
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This quiz will be used as a pre-test and a post-test to measure students gain scores on the topic of genetics. Do your best, if you don't know the answer it is best to guess rather than leave a blank.
- 1.
- A.
Have the ability to copy themselves
- B.
Are very complex and higher order animals
- C.
Lay eggs
- D.
Are only plants
- 2.In sexual reproduction, organism have either:
- A.
A male cell or female cell
- B.
A nucleus or a nucleolus
- C.
Chromosome or alleles
- D.
The ability to copy themselves
- 3.Homozygous traits are revealed in genotypes that are:
- A.
Different
- B.
Same
- C.
Traits that are recessive
- D.
Traits that are dominant
- 4.Heterozygous traits are revealed in genotypes:
- A.
AA
- B.
Aa
- C.
AA
- D.
Aa
- 5.
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You are Gregor Mendel, interpret the following Punnett square to decipher sweet pea information.- A.
25% of the sweet peas are homozygous
- B.
There is a 1 in 4 chance for the sweet pea to be tall
- C.
50% of the sweet peas will have the same genotype
- D.
The next generation of Tt sweet peas combining with Tt will all be tall
- 6.
- A.
Male guinea pigs are dominant
- B.
Parents traits do not matter, nature decides.
- C.
Black guinea pigs have more traits than white guinea pigs.
- D.
Guinea pigs get have of their traits from mom and half from dad. Some traits are recessive some are dominant
- 7.All of the following are phenotypes except:
- A.
Eye color
- B.
Attached Ear lobes
- C.
Personality
- D.
Height
- 8.
- A.
1 out of 4
- B.
50%
- C.
25%
- D.
3 out of 4
- 9.Kids resemble parents because:
- A.
They live in the same house.
- B.
They speak the same language
- C.
They have the same blood
- D.
They have similar DNA
- 10.Complete the analogy. Brown eyes are dominant.
- A.
Recessive:Dimples
- B.
Recessive: blue eyes
- C.
Recessive: being funny
- D.
Recessive: Number of bones in your body
- 11.
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- A.
They will look exactly like thier parents
- B.
They will have long hair
- C.
The children will have at least 75% of having brown eyes
- D.
They will have dimples
- 12.
- A.
The children will all have a widow's peak
- B.
None of the children will have a widow's peak
- C.
Half of the children will have a widow's peak
- D.
75% of the children will hav a widow's peak
- 13.
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- A.
Their blood type
- B.
What the grandparents genotypes and phenotypes were.
- C.
They would not be able to have blue eyes
- D.
All of their eyes will be brown
- 14.
- A.
None of the children will have dimples.
- B.
Dimples are not passed down through heredity.
- C.
All your brothers and sisters will have dimples.
- D.
Nature causes dimples you cannot predict when someone will have them.
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